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The Arts Hour: Val McDermid, Angela Lansbury, Mandela Trilogy

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Val McDermid, Angela Lansbury, Mandela Trilogy

10/09/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Val McDermid, Angela Lansbury, Mandela Trilogy

Val McDermid reveals what she does when she’s stuck with her writing

Val McDermid reveals what she does when she's stuck with her writing and Angela Lansbury on playing Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote

Actress Angela Lansbury on playing Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote  and her seventy years of performing.  Kim Chakanetsa reports from backstage at the musical Nelson Mandela Trilogy.  We meet the choir who sang on the soundtrack of Lord of the Rings – in Elvish!   The Queen of Crime fiction,  .   Australian slam poet and hip-hop artist Luka Lesson interprets Homer’s Odyssey.   Bestselling author of The Dinner, Herman Koch, tells us about his latest novel which explores what happens when fiction influences fact and musician Clarence Adoo from the Paraorchestra who played in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics on a special instrument designed for him after he was paralysed from the neck down in a car-accident.

(Photo shows: Val McDermid (c) Fraser Rice, Angela Lansbury (c) Ian Gavan/Getty,  Aubrey Lodewyk as Mandela 3 in Mandela Trilogy (c) Silvia Lelli)

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